OPERA (Founded by the EARL OF HAREWOOD)

Vol 7 No 5

MAY 1956

Editor: HAROLD ROSENTHAL Assistant Editor: ANDREW PORTER Associate Editors : PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE

WILLIAM MANN, CECIL SMITH, DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR

Contents Cover: Mariano Stabile as Falstaff Photo Houston Rogers Comment Peop1e xxx i: Mariano Stabile by the Earl of Harewood

The Popularity of Italian Opera by Philip Hope-Wallace Gustave Charpentier 1860-1956 The Vic-Wells Opera, 1931-9 Repertory and artists Mozart Bicentenary Celebrations page 270

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News

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Including contributions by James Hinton Jr ., Joseph Wechsberg, Horst Koegler, J. N. McKee, James Marshall, Wolfgang Nolter, Claudio Sartori , E ster Dinacci, C ynthia Jolly, Richard Crowther, Georgy Polyanovsky Gramophone Records 314 Opera Di ary 318 Opera Calendar 324

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